Article 1A3R1 Kernel prepatch 4.6-rc3

Kernel prepatch 4.6-rc3

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The 4.6-rc3 kernel prepatch has been released, but there does not appear tobe an announcement from Linus to go with it. As he predicted, the pace ofchange has increased a bit; 298 changesets have been merged since -rc2, outof 491 total since the closing of the merge window.

Update: your editor has found themissing 4.6-rc3 announcement. It seems it went to the filesystems listonly; Linus apparently had filesystems on his mind. "What _is_ surprising, though, is that about half the bulk of the rc3patch is to filesystem code. I don't recall that before, and thatsurprised me - I had to go look for the reason. It turns out thatwhile we have indeed got changes to several filesystems (btrfs, ext4,orangefs, f2fs), but the big reason was simply from us getting rid ofthe PAGE_CACHE_SIZE macro and just using PAGE_SIZE everywhere."

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